January 17
Inspiration Results – January 17
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Something new I’m doing in 2013…Inspiration Mondays and Results Thursdays. Every Monday, I’ll post a painting “inspiration” and then on Thursdays, I’ll post how I’m interpreting that inspiration. I think this will be a fun exercise for me and keep me painting. It will also allow me to discover and share my “process.”
This week’s inspiration comes from two little girls I painted during the Art Every Day Month Challenge in November.
Every time I thought about them, the words NURSERY COLORS popped into my mind, so that’s what I used for my inspiration this week.
I started with the background.
I planned to do something in yellow and green, but it ended up with a lot of pink.
I liked the simplicity of the “inspiration” girls, so I kept this girl simple too.
How to be HAPPY!
Every Thursday, I’m participating in How to be HAPPY! a weekly challenge from Jay of The Depp Effect. It’s easy to participate…
Take a picture and write about one thing that makes you happy in some small way. Then, head on over to The Depp Effect and link your post.
I was putting away my earrings the other day and thought, “I love my silver safekeeper.”
Silver safekeeper is a type of lining used in jewelry boxes that keeps silver from tarnishing. It’s great because you don’t have to reach for a favorite piece of jewelry only to find you can’t wear it because it’s black with tarnish. What a great invention.
Another item I’ve never heard of before. Almost all my “jewellery” is silver, don’t like gold. This would be so handy and end my reaching for the silvo or lemon juice!
I’ve gotten all my silver safekeeper boxes from QVC.
Love the colors
Nola
It’s cool to see how you develop a painting… since I couldn’t ever paint anything in my wildest dreams. I love the colors too!
Love the colours and agree with KB it is good to see how the painting develops.
Loving the earring keeper.
I love your silver safekeeper too – and I want one!! I often reach for a pair of earrings and then have to go and polish them before I can wear them, especially since I work with fine silver and it does tarnish quicker than sterling! I have little anti-tarnish tabs which I stick inside boxes of items I’m selling, but I don’t have a silver keeper of my own.
Your little yellow and green – and pink – picture does give a kind of overall ‘yellow and green’ impression to me, perhaps because the pink seems kind of neutral here. And I very much like the way you’ve done her dress. I think I said something similar about a different painting of yours, so clearly you have a gift for fabric!
Oh – and thanks for taking part in ‘How to be HAPPY!’!!
I am really enjoying it!
Wow you really sem to be doing lots of painting now…. when is the gallery opening?!
Deccy x
That’s a good question. I’m working on getting a friend to photograph my paintings, then I have to figure out how to create a gallery…it may be a long time.
I love all the girls. They are so cute!
Your paintings of the little girls make me smile. They are happy paintings. I don’t wear jewellery, but if I did I’d order one of those beautiful silver safekeeper boxes. It is gorgeous.
This is a really cute series. I could see it hanging in a nursery or child’s room.